Yup...that's what I had to do too. But, it was worth the work. It's much better to have your web divided up into folders, for organization purposes (just like making folders in Windows....much easier to find stuff)...and, of course, once you convert them to subwebs, the publishing goes much faster and you can avoid the timeouts (IF your host supports subwebs...you need to find that out first...not all do)
And, once you move the stuff, if there are any of your pages that are being linked to from outside sources, these links will no longer work cuz the url is now different...for example: If I had a page called http://personal-computer-tutor.com/vol19.htm which was volume 19 of my ABC newsletter...I then created subfolders called abc1, abc2, and abc3 for each year and made subfolders inside them for each volume...so the new link for volume 19 changed to http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc2/v19/vol19.htm So people clicking on the first link would get a "file not found" error. So, using my stats from my host provider, I can locate all of the pages that are being linked to from outside sources, so I had to make redirect pages for them....this isn't so hard to do. I just created small pages and gave the files the same names as the files that no longer existed, that said something like "This page has moved. If your browser doesn't redirect you, click here and made "here" a link to the new page. The code you can add to your redirect pages that makes this an automatic redirect is this: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc2/v19/vol19.htm";> You just put this between the <head> </head> tags (and obviously change the code so it points to the new location of the page) I also made a custom 404 error page and included links and my email address if people had an old link in their favorites that wasn't working now....this way they could write to me or use my search features to find the page they were looking for if I hadn't made a redirect for it. You can see how this looks if you click on that old vol19.htm link I mentioned above, since that particular one does NOT have a redirect on it, cuz it wasn't added until after I made the change in setup, so it's gonna give you the error. However, custom 404 pages aren't offered by all host providers either, so you have to know that too. I was fortunate in that my host provider is great and does support subwebs and custom 404s (or I wouldda been in trouble LOL) Hope this explains it some....it was a big job, but everything in my site works SO much better now, so it was worth the effort here. Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of LarryB Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PCWorks: Trouble with Web uploads I do not have them divided but I might have to do something like that. I a bit new to all this so I will look into what it takes. Thanks LarryB ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
